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Profiling Feature Photographer Natasha Lesonie
This is the start of a new series where we will be interviewing featured photographers and getting an insight into them and their photography. Today we start with the first person Natasha Lesonie. My name is Natasha, I am a portrait photographer. How long have you been taking photos? Why did you start? I’ve been taking photos for 7 years. It started when my first baby was born. I was eager to catch every moment of her life, hands, the passion to the photography. I quickly realized that it’s not enough just to have a professional camera but it also important to study photography as an art. Little by little people started asking me to take photo of their families. Then I received a few requests from agencies and photo magazines who wanted to use my photos for commercial advertisement and even put them on cover pages. That… | Read the full article
Photography as Art
Is all photography art, or is only some of it art? Are we photographers or artists? Are some of us photographers and some of us artists? How do you know which is which? Interesting questions, and something I’ve been trying to work out for some time. I tried to do a post on it last year, but I don’t think I thought about properly and I was slammed for it. No one seemed to understand what I was trying to get at. People thought I was putting photography down and implying that art was more superior, which I don’t think at all, I just feel that they are different. Recently I saw an online program from Joel Grimes and he talked about how he considers himself an artist and not a photographer. That while he uses the medium of photography, he is an artist. When I saw this I decided… | Read the full article
When Does it Belong to Me
Recently I have been getting lots of inquiries about images that I have on my blog and if they are for sale. The easy answer would be that everything is for sale, so I thought I could set up my own stock image library. Then as I was working out what I could put up and what not, it suddenly started to occur to me, what is really mine to sell. I know that I own the copyright on my images, but where is that line on what I can take and what I can sell. I know that if you take photos in any of the parklands in Victoria that are looked after by Parks Victoria then they won’t let you sell the photos. You can’t make money from their parks unless you pay them a lot more money. I don’t know if I agree with this or… | Read the full article
Rules, Rules, Rules
When I first got into photography I was given a Pentax K1000 for my birthday and I had no idea how to use it. It was a long time ago and the internet wasn’t around so I couldn’t google “how do I use my SLR”, so I had to figure it out for myself. Trial and error got me there. I did one course at the CAE here in Melbourne, but it was about black and white processing, didn’t really help with learning how to use it. I did read a lot, and I figured out what it all meant. Composition was a different thing though. I had to learn that on my own. I had to work out what was the best way an image looked. Then I did a beginners course at a local camera club and I learned the”Rules”.The rules that say everything must be on… | Read the full article
